1 online resource (3 volumes (xvi, 1461 pages)) :

Examines the key sacred texts and foundational documents of the world's primary religions, from ancient times to the present, providing a perspective on how critical religious texts have influenced both the past and the present

Includes bibliographical references and index

v. 1. 2404 BCE-200 CE -- v. 2. 240-1570 -- v. 3. 1604-2002

V. 1. 2404 BCE-200 CE : Pyramid texts ; "Instructions of Ptahhotep" ; "Hymn to the Nile" ; Hymn of the righteous sufferer ; Rig veda ; Egyptiian book of the dead ; Enuma elish ; Bible: Exodus ; Bible: Genesis ; "Great hymn to the Aten" ; Epic of Gilgamesh ; Noble eightfold path ; Jain sutras ; Upanishads ; Confucius: Analects ; Orphic tablets and hymns ; Dao De Jing ; Book of Enoch ; Cleanthes: "Hymn to Zeus" ; Han Feizi ; Bhagavad Gita ; Book of rites ; Laws of Manu ; Pseudo-sibylline oracles ; Lotus sutra ; Lucretius: On the nature of things ; Gospel of Thomas ; Bible: Revelation ; Ptolemy: "Letter to Flora" ; Pirke Avot ; Sefer Yetzirah -- V. 2. 240-1570 : Mani: Evangelium ; Heart sutra ; Popul Vuh ; Nicene creed ; Tirumular: Atbudha dance" ; Dionysius the Areopagite: The celestial hierarchy ; Book of the cave of treasures ; Emerald tablet ; Qurʼan ; Shantideva: Bodhicaryavatara ; The voyage of Bran ; Nihongi ; Tibetan book of the dead ; Sahih al-Bukhari ; Usul al-Kafi ; Yengishiki ; Vishnu Purana ; Mishneh Torah ; Book of the bee ; Ibn al-ʼArabi: The Meccan illuminations ; Snorra Edda ; Francis of Assisi: "Canticle of the creatures" ; Thomas Aquinas: Summa theologicae ; gZi-brjid ; Mohawk thanksgiving address ; Henricus Institoris and Jacobas Sprenger: Malleus maleficarum ; Martin Luther: Ninety-five theses ; The key of Solomon the King ; Paracelsus: Concerning the nature of things ; Rig veda Americanus ; Canons and decrees of the Council of Trent ; The life of St. Theresa of Jesus ; Shulcan arukh -- V. 3. 1604-2002 : Raag gond ; Fama fraternitatis ; Westminster confession ; John Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress ; Kumolipo ; Hakuin Eraku: "Song of meditation" ; Baʼal Shem Tov: "The holy epistle" ; Emanuel Swedenborg: Invitation to the new church ; Francis Barrett: The magus ; Doctrine and covenants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ; Bab: Persian bayan ; Kitab al-Jilwah ; Allan Kardec: The spirits' book ; Bahʼuʼllah: Kitab-i-aqdas ; Mary Baker Eddy: Science and health with key to the scriptures ; Pittsburgh platform ; Helena Blavatsky: The secret doctine ; Rufus M. Jones: "Essential truths" ; Rudolf Steiner: Theosophy ; Emma Goldman: "The philosophy of atheism" ; Robert Athlyi Rogers: Holy piby ; Humanist manifesto ; Meher Baba: Discourses ; Gerald Gardner: Book of shadows ; Vatican II ; Ayatollah Khomeini: Islamic government: governance of the jurist ; Yoruba praise poem to Sango ; Li Hongzhi: Zhuan falun ; Ismar Schorsch: The sacred cluster ; José Trigueirinho: Calling humanity -- List of documents by religious tradition

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